Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination for director of national intelligence (DNI), picked up a key endorsement from the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC).
The NBPC—a labor union representing 18,000 Border Patrol agents and support personnel across the country—endorsed Gabbard in a on Dec. 17. letter addressed to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
Cotton is widely expected to be the next chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he would oversee national intelligence matters in the Senate, according to multiple reports.
His office has neither confirmed nor denied the reports.
“I write to express our complete and total support for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), former U.S. Representative and Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi Gabbard,” the union’s president, Paul Perez, wrote in the letter to Cotton. “We have no doubt that Lt. Col. Gabbard is the right person to be the DNI and will work tirelessly to keep our nation safe, just as she has done for the past two decades.”…